Syrians in Lebanon fear unprecedented restrictions, deportations
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Reuters The soldiers came before daybreak, singling out the Syrian men without residence permits from the tattered camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. As toddlers wailed around them, Mona, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon for a decade, watched Lebanese troops shuffle her brother onto a truck headed for the Syrian border. Thirteen years […]
Aoun’s presidency ends leaving power vacuum in crisis-hit Lebanon
Baabda, LebanonReuters Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian President who presided over Lebanon’s cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, left the presidential palace on Sunday with his term ending, leaving a void at the top of a failing state. Parliament has so far been unable to agree on a successor in the role, […]